Fresh Air
Hosted by Terry Gross and Tonya Mosley and Ann Marie Baldonado and Dave Davies · NPR
4.3from 36,002 ratings
- 1,152
- Episodes
- 920
- Transcribed
- 36,002
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 2M
- YouTube views
About Fresh Air
Fresh Air from WHYY, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of public radio's most popular programs. Hosted by Terry Gross and Tonya Mosley, the show features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries. Support public media by joining NPR+ at plus.npr.org. (http://plus.npr.org/) You’ll get perks for over 25 NPR podcasts, including weekly bonus episodes and curated playlists of archive interviews from Fresh Air. And subscribe to our weekly newsletter, Fresh Air Weekly, to get interview highlights, staff recommendations, gems from the archive, and the week's interviews and reviews all in one place. Sign up at www.whyy.org/freshair
- Publisher
- NPR
- Category
- arts · society & culture · tv & film
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 15 Feb 2023
- Latest episode
- 5 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
920 of 1,152 episodes have a transcript.
5 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
Novelist Min Jin Lee on the promise and perils of Western education
4 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
Jordan Firstman captures the highs and lows of being a ‘Club Kid’
3 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
The skyrocketing cost of elder care
Inside a recent episode
Novelist Min Jin Lee on the promise and perils of Western education
Published 5 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] One was sacrifice, and the other one was sequencing. So if you and I are in a family, Arthi, and you want to go to school, and I could tell that you're the kind of person who's really directed, and I could pay for your school, you go to school. And then, so I'm sacrificing, but we're also sequencing. […]
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- Min Jin Lee
- Jordan Firstman
- Paula Span
- John Turturro
- Javier Calvo
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 2,474,779
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.3 / 5
- 36,002 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 83 / 100
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- Quality
- 91
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 97
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Who hosts Fresh Air?
Terry Gross and Tonya Mosley and Ann Marie Baldonado and Dave Davies host the show. Published by NPR.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does Fresh Air take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
Where can I read transcripts?
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